[Tutor] string to list of characters

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:29:22AM +0100, sean dowie wrote:
> I want to turn a word into a list of the letters, eg "dog" becomes ['d',
> 'o', 'g'].
> Is there a simple way to use split() or something to do this, or do I have
> to loop through each letter of the string?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Sean

>>> word = "dog"
>>> l = [letter for letter in word]
>>> l
['d', 'o', 'g']
>>> 

That's list comprehension.. It's described in detail in the tutorial.
It's kind of neat.

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